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04-17-2014, 11:14 PM
Scientists on Track to Assemble 3D Printed “Bioficial” Heart
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/printed-heart.jpg3D printed replacement body parts are already saving lives (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/surgically-implanted-3d-printed-tracheal-splint-saves-babys-life.html) and helping to offer new therapies (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/womans-native-skull-replaced-with-3d-printed-plastic-model.html) for otherwise crippling conditions. Yet, in practice this has been limited to plastic replacements for bones and other structural components in the body. Printing a soft tissue, vascularized, complicated organ like the heart is still a ways away, but researchers at the*Cardiovascular In**vation Institute, a project between University of Louisville, Kentucky and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare, are already working toward this project. Their goal is to 3D print a human heart from a do**r’s own cellular starter, and they have already printed heart valves and basic vasculature that can be integrated into a finished product. *
Here’s an Associated Press video report from the labs doing the groundbreaking research:
More from Associated Press: Scientists try 3-D printer to build human heart… (http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-try-3-d-printer-build-human-heart-233444431.html)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?i=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:gIN9vFwOqvQ)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Medgadget/~4/cGpG8uH33Xw
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/printed-heart.jpg3D printed replacement body parts are already saving lives (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/surgically-implanted-3d-printed-tracheal-splint-saves-babys-life.html) and helping to offer new therapies (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/womans-native-skull-replaced-with-3d-printed-plastic-model.html) for otherwise crippling conditions. Yet, in practice this has been limited to plastic replacements for bones and other structural components in the body. Printing a soft tissue, vascularized, complicated organ like the heart is still a ways away, but researchers at the*Cardiovascular In**vation Institute, a project between University of Louisville, Kentucky and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare, are already working toward this project. Their goal is to 3D print a human heart from a do**r’s own cellular starter, and they have already printed heart valves and basic vasculature that can be integrated into a finished product. *
Here’s an Associated Press video report from the labs doing the groundbreaking research:
More from Associated Press: Scientists try 3-D printer to build human heart… (http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-try-3-d-printer-build-human-heart-233444431.html)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?i=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Medgadget?a=cGpG8uH33Xw:_uqZg4H9x18:gIN9vFwOqvQ)
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